Were the military bases back then the same as now?

Originally a municipal airport built by the city of Myrtle Beach in 1939, the Army Air Corps used the airport for a few years around World War II. They returned ownership of the base back to Myrtle Beach in 1947. The city then donated the area to U.S. read more

You might read about these places by reading the public information about their history posted on the Internet. West Point, NY is an official US Army base today, and is the oldest continuously occupied military base in the United States. See Page on usma.edu. read more

Back then, in the case of career soldiers, for soldiers who had served out the period of their draft and wanted to re-enlist, there were options in assignment, as a matter of retention, not recruiting. read more

Like most Americans, for most of my life, I rarely thought about military bases. Scholar and former CIA consultant Chalmers Johnson described me well when he wrote in 2004, “As distinct from other peoples, most Americans do not recognize—or do not want to recognize—that the United States dominates the world through its military power. read more